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WRITINGS AND TEACHINGS

KENNETH WESTHUES
Professor Emeritus
University of Waterloo, Canada

Updated with quotes for September 2024:

Classic:
But if I and another come up against one another, the sum does not exactly divide, there is a remainder somewhere, where the souls end and the world has not yet begun, and this remainder is what is essential.
— Martin Buber, 1938.

Direct:
Equality means taking turns talking and listening, acting and being acted upon, accepting and asserting the differences between self and other, for the sake of a result no one could foretell.
— Lecture, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, 1988.

Garden moment for September 2024:

I don't know when high-grade plastic planters that fit on top of fence railings were first produced and marketed, but to my eye, they are often useful in hardscaping a garden. This one has a couple of spikes, a begonia, and creeping jenny.

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